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THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD by Rene Guenon. (Indica, Varanasi, 1999. Softcover, 8vo, 142pp. 8186569111).

In the first half of the 20th century, a French man, Rene Guenon (1886-1951), struck the conscience of the Western world by reminding it about the spiritual knowledge that was at the heart of all traditional civilizations but that the modern West had completely lost sight of.

A profound knower of Hindu, Islamic, Taoist and other traditions, Guenon expounded, in a similar way as Coomaraswamy with whom he regularly corresponded, the traditional metaphysics which give a unity beyond the forms to the apparently different traditions of mankind. Thought completely ingnored by the official academic world, his message inspired quite a few seekers, and his books are now re-edited and his influence spreading.

In the Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in 1927, he writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness when confronted with the traditional civilizations.

Almost eighty years later, his words are still fully valid, but there is something that has definitely changed: the traditional East that Guenon sets against the modern West had dissapeared in a great measure as Asia has taken, by its own choice or by the force of circumstances, to the same road as the West. The reflections of Guenon about the modern world are applicable to a large extent to the Asia of today, which is in danger of being submerged by a strong flow of modern ways and conceptions and forgetting the spiritual base that was always the foundation of its civilization and that was the reason for its survival through so many centuries.

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